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Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature? [PDF]

Journal of Peasant Studies, 2012
Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. The vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel – as where large tracts of land ...
Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach, James Fairhead   +2 more
exaly   +8 more sources

Green grabbing debate and Madagascar: did we learn anything? [PDF]

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2017
Green grabbing is a scholarly critique of conservation efforts. Scholars of green grabbing argue that many conservation strategies - such as the designation of protected areas and the creation of market-based conservation mechanisms - are designed with the intent to dispossess local peoples and capitalise natural assets.
Thorkil Casse
exaly   +6 more sources

Green Grabbing in the Matopiba Agricultural Frontier

IDS Bulletin, 2023
This article discusses grilagem (land grabbing) in the Cerrado, particularly in Matopiba territory, which is seen as the newest and largest global agricultural frontier. It examines how the Rural Environmental Cadastre (CAR), created in 2012, has become an instrument for land and green grabbing.
Anderson Antonio Silva Anderson Antonio Silva, Acácio Zuniga Leite, Luís Felipe Perdigão de Castro, Sérgio Sauer   +3 more
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

From the Agrarian Question to the Territorial Question: Green Grabbing and the Corridors of Extractivist Dispossession in Latin America

Land
The article aims to analyze the contemporary forms of territorial dispossession that stem from the energy transition, especially those related to free trade corridors and green grabbing in the context of Latin America.
Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, Luciana Nogueira Nóbrega   +1 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Grey areas in green grabbing: subtle and indirect interconnections between climate change politics and land grabs and their implications for research

Land Use Policy, 2019
This paper builds on the literature on green grabbing. It makes a fresh contribution by bringing in aspects of green grabbing that are less visible and obvious. These are subtle, fluid and indirect interconnections between climate change politics and land grabs.
Jennifer C Franco
exaly   +5 more sources

Building a green economy of low carbon: the Greek post-crisis experience of photovoltaics and financial 'green grabbing'

Journal of Political Ecology, 2017
Under the global rhetoric of 'the green economy' Renewable Energy Resources (RES) projects have proliferated across the world. This article examines the growth of photovoltaic projects in post-crisis Greece, grounded in a green energy discourse.
Zoi Christina Siamanta
doaj   +4 more sources

Accumulation by dispossession and green grabbing: wind farms, lease agreements, land appropriation in the Brazilian semiarid

Ambiente & Sociedade, 2021
Wind power presents itself as an alternative to fossil fuels, playing an important role in fighting climate change. In that context, the Brazilian semiarid inland emerges as a new frontier for the wind industry given its high potential.
Mariana Traldi
doaj   +3 more sources

Green Grabbing in Renewable Energy Policy: A Case Study of the Wae Sano Geothermal Project [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
The phenomenon of green grabbing in renewable energy projects demonstrates the paradox between global interests in reducing emissions and local realities facing the threat of losing living space.
Sihidi Iradhad Taqwa, Salahudin, Yasmine, Dharmala Bayu   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Latifúndio eólico: energia renovável, green grabbing e modernização conservadora no Nordeste do Brasil

SER Social, 2023
A produção de energia eólica no Nordeste do Brasil é entendida pelo Estado e pelas empresas de energia como diversificadora da matriz elétrica nacional e mitigadora das mudanças climáticas globais, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento sustentável ...
Francisco Raphael Cruz Mauricio
doaj   +2 more sources

Estratégias de green grabbing no contexto da transição energética: um estudo a partir da apropriação integral do território na América Latina

Revista NERA
No artigo analisamos as formas contemporâneas de despossessão e espoliação territorial decorrentes da transição energética, especialmente aquelas relacionadas aos corredores de livre comércio e ao green grabbing no contexto da América Latina.
Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, Luciana Nogueira Nóbrega   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources